Sunday, August 13, 2006

Toiling Through HTML

A couple of months ago I decided I wanted to change the look of my blog. It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. The page you are now perusing is the result of hours of struggling with HTML, an abbreviation I’m sure, for “hellish turmoil”. Give me a week in which I have no family, work, church, or home responsibilities, and no phone calls, and perhaps I could sit down and learn this supposedly sensible code.

Since finding a week like that is as likely an event as my finding an elixir of youth, I’m probably stuck with the glitches in my new design. For instance, why does the most recent post’s date appear in purple (it’s supposed to be black), and as a link? Why can’t I successfully add the cool graphic my sister gave me to the title bar? Why does the “In the Long Run” title appear in the color ‘sand” as a link when a previous post is loaded as a separate page? And why can’t I even figure out how to adjust the spacing between datelines and titles and posts?? I wish I were a computer geek!

I’ve decided I’m more of a design critic than a design creator. Web design is harder than it looks! Even a simple task, like choosing new colors, was difficult for me. I finally pulled out a running top that I like, and used its colors as the basis for my blog’s color scheme. Although I haven’t solved my other problems yet, it provides me with satisfying symmetry to emblazon my blog with the colors of the top I wore in my first long run.


Comments:
Wow! Your blog looks fantastic! I love the colors. The look is very clean and neat. Great idea to use the color from your running top.

Here is a link to a site that has some good HTML tutorials.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

HTML=HyperText Markup Language (I'm sure you knew that!)

Cheers
 
My goodness...to have such an affinity for that interesting color combination! They must be the hues of your old High School or College.
 
I like the colors -- they are complimentary on the color wheel I believe, and so they provide a nice contrast. I think the photo of your top looks like a piece of modern art. And as for the HTML, well we've already talked that over a million times. Maybe you can find a blogger forum and post your entry as a cry for help! But actually I don't think the glitches are noticable to the average user. And it all looks very nice!
 
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